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Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS.
The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people.
Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. Anyone, that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in men's hearts.
But the soldiers' actions have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a taste for the strange. And where Herod goes, so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other, the killer known as the Collector . . .
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
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| Spain | Tusquets |
| Spain (Catalan) | Bromera |
A
strange novel for strange young people.
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative
by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they
come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue.
The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But
it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider
that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous
gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just
itching to get out...
Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power
of science to save the world as we know it?
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Brazil | Bertrand Brasil |
| Bulgaria | Prozorets |
| China | Shanghai 99 |
| France | L'Archipel |
| German | Random House Juvenile |
| Greece | Harlenic |
| Indonesia | Gramedia |
| Italy | Salani (Longanesi) |
| Korea | Munhakdongne |
| Macedonia | Prosvetno Delo |
| Portugal | Bertrand |
| Spain | Ediciones B |
| Taiwan | Rye Field |
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When
Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple,
a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There
was no explanation for his actions.
Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police,
Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out
of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case
yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding
the death of his father, Will.
It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's
loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised.
And by two figures in the shadows, a man and a woman, with only one purpose:
to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence...
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Atria / Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) |
| Brazil | Bertrand Brasil |
| Bulgaria | Prozorets |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| France | Presses de la Cite |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| The Netherlands | Luitingh-Sijthoff |
| Spain | Tusquets |
| Spain (Catalan) | Bromera |
| Turkey | Artemis |
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***Straight
into the Irish Bestseller Lists at No2 in its first week***
They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their
names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them.
But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there
is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town
that no longer exists on a map. A town ruled by a man with very personal
reasons for wanting Louis's blood spilt. There they find themselves trapped,
isolated, and at the mercy of a killer feared above all others: the assassin
of assassins, Bliss. Thanks to former detective Charlie Parker, help is
on its way. But can Angel and Louis stay alive long enough for it to reach
them?
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Atria / Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) |
| Bulgaria | Prozorets |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| France | Presses de la Cité |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | Ulpuis-Haz |
| The Netherlands | Luitingh-Sijthoff |
| Romania | RAO |
| Spain | Tusquets |
| Spain (Catalan) | Bromera |
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*** THE IRISH TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER***
Parker: “What makes you think I’m going to get in trouble?”
Aimee (the lawyer): “You’re a repeat offender Mr Parker... Trouble
is your thing.”
Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychologist, has been missing for years following
revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Believing him dead,
his daughter Rebecca has tried to come to terms with her father's legacy,
but her fragile peace is about to be shattered.
Someone is asking questions about Daniel Clay, someone who does not believe
that he is dead: the revenger Merrick, a father and a killer obsessed with
discovering the truth about his own daughter's disappearance. Private detective
Charlie Parker is hired to make Merrick go away, but Merrick will not be
stopped. Soon Parker finds himself trapped between those who want the truth
about Daniel Clay to be revealed, and those who want it to remain hidden
at all costs.
But there are other forces at work here. Someone is funding Merrick's hunt,
a ghost from Parker's past. And Merrick's actions have drawn others from
the shadows, half-glimpsed figures intent upon their own form of revenge,
pale wraiths drifting through the ranks of the unquiet dead. The Hollow
Men have come ...
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Atria / Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) |
| Bulgaria | Prozorets |
| Catalan | Bromera |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| Denmark | Lindhardt & Ringhof |
| France | Presses de la Cité |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | Ulpuis-Haz |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| The Netherlands | Luitingh-Sijthoff |
| Poland | RCS Rizzoli |
| Romania | RAO |
| Russia | Eksmo |
| Spain | Tusquets |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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***WINNER
OF THE SIMON & SCHUSTER ALEX AWARD***
***NOMINATED FOR THE HUGHES & HUGHES IRISH BOOK AWARD***
High in his attic bedroom twelve year old David mourns the loss of his mother.He
is angry and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf to keep him company.
But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness and as he takes
refuge in the whispers and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother he finds
that the real world and the fantasy world have begun to meld. The Crooked
man has come, with his mocking smile and his enigmatic words: "Welcome your
majesty, all hail the new king."
As war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a world that
is both a constrict of his imagination yet frighteningly real, a strange
reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories, populated by
worves and worse than wolves and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his
secrets in a legendary book...
"An engaging, magical, thougthful read" - The Independent
"As sinister and unsettling as anything invented by the Brothers Grimm"
- The Daily Mail
"A moving, brilliantly imagined fable"- The Times
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Simon & Schuster |
| Brazil | Bertrand Brasil |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | Shanghai 99 |
| Croatia | Profil International |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| Denmark | Lindhart & Ringhof |
| France | L'Archipel |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | General Press |
| Indonesia | Gramedia |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| Japan | Kodansha |
| Korea | Pola Books |
| The Netherlands | Anthos |
| Norway | Bazar Forlag |
| Poland | Niebieska Studnia |
| Portugal | Bertrand |
| Romania | RAO |
| Russia | Eksmo |
| Serbia | Laguna |
| Spain | Ediciones Oniro |
| Taiwan | Rye Field |
| Thailand | Pearl Publishing |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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THE
NEW CHARLIE PARKER THRILLER
*** THE IRISH TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER***
**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER**
The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black
Angel lives…
A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have
taken her believe that nobody cares about her and that no one will come
looking for her. They are wrong.
She is “blood” to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the
right hand of private detective Charlie Parker and Louis will tear apart
anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her. But as Louis’
violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance
is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones
in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944 and to
the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil
men: the Black Angel.
Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It lives. And men are not the only
creatures that seek it.
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|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Atria / Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | New Star Press |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| France | Presses de la Cité |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | Ulpuis-Haz |
| Indonesia | Gramedia |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| The Netherlands | Luitingh-Sijthoff |
| Poland | C & T Pawel Marszalek |
| Russia | Mir Knigi |
| Serbia | Laguna |
| Spain | Tusquets |
| Taiwan | Faces |
| Thailand | Nanmeebooks |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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***A
COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF CHILL***
“Connolly creates those rarest of books – literate and beautifully
written page-turners.” Mark Billingham, Daily Mail.
Take his hand and follow him into the darkness…
John Connolly here turns his pen to the short story to give us more than
a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre collection,
echoing masters of the genre from M.R. James to Stephen King, Connolly delves
into our darkest fears – lost lovers, missing children, subterranean
creatures and predatory demons.
Framing the collection are two substantial novellas: The Cancer Cowboy Rides
charts the fatal progress of a modern-day grim reaper while The Reflecting
Eye is a haunted house tale with a twist and marks the return of private
detective Charlie Parker, the troubled hero of Connolly’s crime novels.
Nocturnes is a masterly volume to be read with the lights on – menace
has never been so seductive
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Atria / Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) |
| Brazil | Bertrand Brasil |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | New Star Press |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Japan | Shueisha |
| Korea | Open House Publishers |
| Poland | Wydawnictwo C & T |
| Taiwan | Rye Field |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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***
A UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER ***AN IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
***
*** AN AUSTRALIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLER ***
In 1702, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed
to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three
hundred years of peace.
Until now. For men are descending on Sanctuary, their purpose to hunt down
and kill the wife of their leader and retrieve the money that she stole
from him. All that stands in their way are a young rookie officer, Sharon
Macy, and the island’s strange, troubled policeman, the giant known
as Melancholy Joe Dupree.
But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island’s
secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been
steeped in blood once; it will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no
longer. Now a band of killers is set to desecrate Sanctuary and unleash
the fury of its ghosts upon themselves and all who stand by them.
On Sanctuary, all hell is about to break loose…
This book eats away at your soul. Sunday Business Post
With Bad Men there's no chance of indifference. This is horror
that will knock your socks off. Daily Mirror
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Atria / Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | New Star Press |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Indonesia | Gramedia |
| The Netherlands | Luitnigh-Sijthoff |
| Poland | C & T Pawel Marszalek |
| Russia | Eksmo |
| Sweden | Forum |
| Taiwan | Rye Field |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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***
A NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ***
*** A UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ***
***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape
and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in
the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots
in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality.
But Parker is about to enter a living nightmare, a red dreamscape haunted
by the murderous spectre of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a
passenger that never comes, and by the complicity of both friends and enemies
in the events surrounding Marianne Larousse's death.
This is no ordinary investigation. This is a descent into the abyss, a confrontation
with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his
unborn child, his very soul...
“A brilliantly terrifying ride” Irish Times
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Atria / Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | New Star Press |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| France | Presses de la Cité |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | Pecsi Direkt |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| Macedonia | Silsons |
| The Netherlands | Luitngh-Sijthoff |
| Poland | C & T Pawel Marszalek |
| Russia | Eksmo |
| Spain | Tusquets Editores |
| Sweden | Forum |
| Taiwan | Faces |
| Thailand | Nanmeebooks |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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***A
UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BEST-SELLER ***
*** AN IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BEST-SELLER ***
*** A SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST-SELLER ***
JOHN CONNOLLY AT HIS VERY BEST – AS POWERFUL, DISTURBING AND COMPELLING
AS THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Nobody wants to believe that Grace Peltier committed suicide: not Curtis,
her father; not former state senator Jack Mercier; and not private detective
Charlie Parker, who has been hired to investigate the circumstances of her
death.
But when a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place
of the Aroostock Baptists, a religious community that disappeared almost
forty years earlier, Parker realises that their deaths and the violent passing
of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in
her family history and in the origins of the shadowy organisation known
as the Fellowship.
“Menace has never been so seductive” Maxim Jakubowski,
The Guardian
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Simon & Schuster |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | New Star |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| France | Presses de la Cité |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | Alexandra |
| Indonesia | Gramedia |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| The Netherlands | Luitingh-Sijthoff |
| Poland | C & T Pawel Marszalek |
| Russia | Eksmo |
| Spain | Tusquets Editores |
| Sweden | Forum |
| Taiwan | Faces |
| Thailand | Nanmeebooks |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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***IN
EVERY DEAD THING JOHN CONNOLLY SET NEW STANDARDS FOR THE GENRE***
***IN DARK HOLLOW, CONNOLLY TRIUMPHANTLY JUSTIFIES THE PROMISE OF HIS DEBUT***
*** A UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BEST-SELLER ***
*** A NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BEST-SELLER ***
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOUCHERCON BARRY AWARD FOR BEST BRITISH NOVEL
A young woman, Rita Ferris, and her little son die at the hands
of an unknown killer, and the past and present collide for Bird Parker.
Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events
surround the hunt for their killer, Bird has retreated to the wintry Maine
landscapes of his youth. But his return awakens the ghosts of the past,
forcing him to join the hunt for Billy Perdue, Rita’s ex-husband and
the chief suspect in the slayings.
It becomes clear that someone else is also hunting for Billy Perdue, someone
who seems to know Bird almost as well as he knows himself, and that the
true answer to the puzzle lies thirty years in the past in the troubled
history of Bird’s own grandfather and in the origins of a mythical
killer, the monster known as Caleb Kyle.
“Connolly is a master storyteller”The Express
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Simon & Schuster |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | New Star |
| Croatia | KIP International |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| France | Presses de la Cité |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | Pecsi Direkt |
| Indonesia | Gramedia |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| Japan | Kodansha |
| Norway | Vendetta |
| The Netherlands | Anthos |
| Poland | C & T Pawel Marszalek |
| Russia | Eksmo |
| Spain | Tusquets Editores |
| Taiwan | Faces |
| Thailand | Nanmeebooks |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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****WINNER
OF THE SHAMUS AWARD ***
*** A UK SUNDAY TIMES BEST-SELLER ***AN IRISH TIMES
BEST-SELLER ***A SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST-SELLER ***
***UK RIGHTS SOLD TO HODDER & STOUGHTON FOR THE BIGGEST AUCTION FOR
A FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE HORSE WHISPERER ***
Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter and tormented
by his sense of guilt, former New York City detective Charlie 'Bird' Parker
is a man consumed by violence, regret and the desire for revenge.
Then Bird's ex-partner asks him to track down a missing girl and Bird embarks
on an odyssey that is to lead him into the bowels of organised crime; to
an old black woman who lives by the Louisiana swamps; to cellars of torture
and death; and to a serial killer unlike any other who uses the human body
as his own canvas and takes faces as his prize; a killer known only as The
Travelling Man.
Steeped in the best tradition of American crime fiction, John Connolly's
stunning first novel pushes back the frontiers of the genre. Complexly plotted,
richly textured with memorable characters and a profoundly moral dimension,
it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realised.
This is an ambitious, moral, disturbing tale with a stunning climax
The Times
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
| North America | Simon & Schuster |
| Bulgaria | Prozarets |
| China | New Star |
| Croatia | KIP International |
| Czech Republic | BB Art |
| France | Presses de la Cité |
| Germany | Ullstein |
| Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
| Hungary | General Press |
| Indonesia | Gramedia |
| Italy | Rizzoli |
| Japan | Kodansha |
| Korea | Open House Publishing |
| Norway | Vendetta |
| The Netherlands | Luitingh-Sijthoff |
| Poland | C & T Pawel Marszalek |
| Romania | RAO |
| Russia | Eksmo |
| Spain | Circulo de Lectores |
| Taiwan | Faces |
| Thailand | Nanmeebooks |
| Turkey | Altin Bylek |
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